Meaningful Quotes about Fathers It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller A father inquires whether his boy can construe Homer, if he understands Horace, and can taste Virgil; but how seldom does he ask, or examine, or think whether he can restrain his passions,—whether he is grateful, generous, humane, compassionate, just and benevolent.—Lady Hervey. I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well. - Alexander the Great
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. - Enid Bagnold
Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. - Exodus 20:12
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. - Bill Cosby
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week. - Mario Cuomo Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development. - David M. Gottesman
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all. - J. August Strindberg
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown
Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much. - Unknown
A Dad has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. - Unknown How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like the aged man reclining under the shadow of the oak which he has planted.—Scot's Magazine.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. - Euripedes
My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.' - Jim Fox
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. - Robert Frost
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life. - Elbert Hubbard
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan. - Garrison Keillor
Honor thy father and thy mother. - Matthew 19:19
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. - Robert Orben
A father is a banker provided by nature. - French Proverb
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. - Sigmund Freud
Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. - Anne Geddes Dads
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